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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic Back Shared AI Training Signal

Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic have backed a shared signal within robots.txt, the small file websites use to guide automated bots. The signal is meant to show whether a site's content can be used to train AI models. It gives website owners one common way to express that choice.

Quick glossaryGoogle, robots.txt, AI training
Google
Google is a US tech company best known for its search engine, Gmail, Android phones and AI products.
robots.txt
A small text file on a website that tells search engines and bots which pages they may visit.
AI training
Teaching an AI model by feeding it large amounts of text, images or other data so it learns patterns.
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